September 10, 2007

The Power of an Idea?

It says "FREE HUGS."

She said she was "aware" of the YouTube video (18m have seen it). She was not vlogging the experience. She had no one with her that I could tell. When I asked her if she was here because of the YouTube meet-up (DCTube) on Saturday she said "no."

She just wanted to do it. Now I could have really grilled her - sorority? religion? drugs? But instead, I got my hug and went to work.

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When I was a student at NYU, I was stopped one day while walking up Broadway near 8th St. The guy told me he liked my shoes, which happened to be pretty plain black Mary Janes, and asked me if he could see them up close. I took off my right shoe, handed it to him and he ran away, down Broadway, with my shoe.